Re: set dnsdomainname

[Marco van Hulten]

Je  5 mrt 11:30 skribis Marco:
> Hello Guix—
> 
> I want `dnsdomainname` to be set on my system with GuixSD (because it
> is used as a destination in my Postfix configuration).  How do I go
> about this?
> 
> The system with GuixSD gets network information from my Debian 8 server
> that runs the ISC DHCP server.  So I thought the best approach would be
> to configure the DHCP server by adding this near the top of dhcpd.conf:
> 
>     ddns-updates on;
>     ddns-domainname "instanton";
> 
> But it doesn't get picked up by the GuixSD client system.
> 
> Is there a way to specify full hostname(1) information (`hostname
> --fqdn`, `dnsdomainname`) in Guix' system configuration?

I found that one can edit /etc/hosts , starting with something like:

    127.0.0.1  localhost
    127.0.1.1  myhost.mydomain  myhost

but of course this is overwritten by the Guix system (at reboot).

—Marco